PORT TOWNSEND — Ansel Adams photographs provide the images. Clarence Moriwaki, president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Exclusion Memorial Association, will offer the background. Moriwaki will speak at the Jefferson County Historical Society First Friday Lecture in the Port Townsend City Council chambers, 250 Madison St., at 7 p.m. Friday. read more

SALEM — The photography of Ansel Adams is so sturdily composed, so enduringly right that it can feel like the aesthetic equivalent of granite. Unbudgeably there. Non-porous. A waste of time to take issue with. These feelings emerge from qualities inherent in the photographs (the sharpness of their focus, their encompassing breadth of vision, their [...]

Nearly 50 years, ago, American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams shot black-and-white images of the University of California campuses, creating a vast repository of 1960s photographs that was named “Fiat Lux” (“Let there be light”), after the university’s motto.   Wheeler Hall and the Campanile, (Photo by Ansel Adams)   Incoming freshmen and transfer students [...]

Photographer Alan Ross says the advent of digital cameras has given more people the opportunity and inclination to take photographs, resulting in more ordinary people capturing extraordinary images. Ross, an internationally respected photographer and educator, will speak at the annual banquet of the Effingham County Chamber of Commerce at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at [...]

Ansel Adams’ iconic photographs of Western landscapes are recognized the world over. In the course of the past six months, those images have brought unprecedented recognition to the Missoula Art Museum. When the MAM’s exhibit of 138 prints by the late photographer closes this coming Sunday, it will have set new records in almost every [...]

SIOUX FALLS, SD – It’s a name synonymous with photography, and now it’s coming to Sioux Falls. Crews are setting up the Ansel Adams exhibit, which opens at the Washington Pavilion next month.  Pavilion officials raised about $50,000 to pay for the 50 piece exhibit. Director of Visual Arts Center David Merhib expects a big [...]

Renowned photographer’s work on display MOUNT VERNON, Ill. — The tones, textures and compositions are as immaculate as the images are iconic in “Classic Images: Photographs of Ansel Adams,” a new exhibition opening Saturday in the Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst in Mount Vernon, Ill. The show features 70 black-and-white images hand-printed by Adams, one the nation’s [...]

About 60 of Ansel Adams’ stepchildren will spend the coming four weeks hanging out in a downtown art gallery. They’re pictures the great photographer of natural landscapes took of urbanized Los Angeles around 1940 – and donated to the Los Angeles Public Library more than 20 years later, with apologies because he thought that “none [...]

Eye local photos taken by the photo legend. Quick. Think “Ansel Adams” and then tell us what the next thing is that springs to mind. Is it a stunning, ethereal shot of Yosemite’s Half Dome? Is it a panoramic take on some distant, snow-capped mountain range? Did we hit close? Mr. Adams, a legend among legends [...]

  “The Mountains That Made the Man” A portfolio by Peter Essick pays tribute to Ansel Adams and the craggy California wilderness named in his honor. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie—and started shooting. “I expect to be broke [...]